The Brookhaven leader., 1887-08-18

The White River Utes were assembled
n force and threatening Violence near
Meeker, Col, on the 18th. Colorow was
said TO be at their head
THE three mile with turn race on Sara
tOga lake between v allace Ross and
George Bubear, champion of England took
place on the 18th and was won by the Eng
lishman, who made the distance in twenty
minutes.
The cannon ball train going west from
Paris, Tex, on the night of the 18th was
wrecked near Victor, by running over a
cow, turning the engine ever and killing
Hugh MtLeat, tho fireman.
1HE schedules IN the assignment of the
firm of Gardner & Dudley, hat manufactur-
ers, New York, show liabilities $l23 7S5,
nominal assets $llO 50. actual assets $}O,-
O4S
THE cholera epidemic in Italy shows a
decrease especially in Catania. The con-
dltion of some parts of Sicily. however,
causes apprehension
FUVSTApLp PofrS shot and seriously
wounded thomas Hardy at Des Moines,
Iowa, recently. Potts was endeavoring to
arrest Hardy a. the time TOR having posses
sion of a keg Of beer.
THE centenary service, to commemorate
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America, was given in Westminster Abbey,
London, on the 18th, Canon Z. b. Hartford
conducted the service. and the sermon was
delivered by the PishOr of Iowa
A -oMBINATloN train on the Evansville
4 Indianapolis road ran through culvert
at Saline City, Ind, recently, injuring six
persons, one seriously.
LEVI HOLwIG IA miner in the BlossDurg
mines, New Mexico. was crushed TO death
under large rock the other day.
FIRE started in Campbell 4 Dicks car
pet strre, FIfth ard Wood streets, Pitts
burgh, Pa, on the night Of the 18th, burn
ing down the Hamilton and other blocks
| The damage amounted to Sl,OOO,OO0; lnsur
ance probably two-thirds.
SENATOR RDDLEBERGER was committed
to Jail and fined 50 by Judge Newman at
| Woodstock, Va, recently for contempt of
court, \ placard was paraded on the street.
rejecting on The Judge in a ease in which
Riddleberger was interested. Partisan
feeling was running high and there were
fears of trouble,
EvIDENt was aCCumulating on the 18th
| that the awful railroad accident near Chats
worth, H., was caused by unknown persons
| who desired the wreck of the train for pur-
! poses OF robbery.
THE convicts employed by the Missouri
! Pacific at Galveston, Tex, have left town.
1t was feared that trouble would result
from the labOrers' Indignation meeting
Louis and Charles Bettls were run over
and killed recently by the west-bound Texas
! Pacific train near Dallas.
| THE office of the Minister of Foreign AT
fairs at Paris was entered by burglars the
other night and several hundred francs in
! CT tHinynC M
| alarmed before they had completed their
search for plunder and fed, leaving a
bundle of bank notes undiscovered.
/ EXPORTS of the principal articles of pro-
visions during July past aggregated in
/ value $S.51I1, 45l, against S1,10i, OBS during
| July lssG
! JOSEPH EMERIcK, of Cincinnati, one OF
the Cincinnati, Hamilton d Dayton rail
road directors, and one of the committee
| sent to New York to investigate the Ives
! affair, says that Ives has managed to gut
! the Vandalia, and that he is completely
| overwhelmed in the wreck he himself has
wrought
| The French agents in Bulgaria have been
instructed to avoid all intercourse with
Prince Ferdinand and his Government.
JEAN VICTOR DURUY, the French his
! torian, is dead he was sevcnty-sX years
old.
The directors Of the Midland railway,
| England, publish a statement admitting
! that the strike of their engineers and fire.
men had cost the company 800 900, but de-
| claring that ten times that sum would not
! offset the necessity of maintaining disci-
! pline among the employees Of the line,
ROBERT CARLEY, chief mail distributor at
the post-office at Austin, Tex, entered a
| plea of guilty to the charge of abstracting
valuable letters, and was committed to jail
/ Sentence was deferred